The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal HistoryIn this narrative history and contextual analysis of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery and freedom take center stage. Alexander Tsesis demonstrates how entrenched slavery was in pre-Civil War America, how central it was to the political events that resulted in the Civil War, and how it was the driving force that led to the adoption of an amendment that ultimately provided a substantive assurance of freedom for all American citizens. |
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... prohibited Congress from abolishing the international slave trade for twenty years after ratification. During that period of time, the Importation Clause limited Congress's authority to levying a ten dollar head tax for each imported ...
... prohibited free states from liberating them. Douglass denounced the provision for making “the whole land one vast hunting ground for men,” making felons out of persons who broke the fetters of slavery. The amendment provision in Article ...
... prohibited them from assembling, not even for religious services or charitable purposes. Free blacks often worked in the most menial jobs, excluded from professions either by cultural or statutory barriers.20 These nominally free people ...
... prohibited any free blacks from entering the state or subjected them to fines, but in a show of faux compassion the state allowed law-abiding blacks already living there to remain. Iowa followed an established line of Northern ...
... prohibited slavery in the rest of the territory North of 36 ̊30' latitude, Congress paved the way for ever greater Southern demands.23 The Missouri Compromise attempted to offset the Southern congressional gain of admitting Missouri ...
Contents
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End of Radical Ideals and Judicial Response | 59 |
Summing Up and Looking Ahead | 94 |
Theoretical Foundation | 101 |
Thirteenth Amendment and Constitutional Rights | 112 |
Contemporary Settings | 137 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Select Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 221 |
About the Author | 229 |
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